Kalemouth
Encyclopedia
Kalemouth is a village in the Scottish Borders
area of Scotland
, where the Kale Water
joins the River Teviot
, near to Eckford
, Cessford
, Crailing
, Kelso, and Roxburgh
.
Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
is a suspension bridge
.
Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...
area of Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, where the Kale Water
Kale Water
The Kale Water is a long tributary of the River Teviot in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Its feeder burns in the Cheviot Hills are the Long Burn, Hawkwillow Burn and the Grindstone Burn, east of Leithope Forest near the Anglo-Scottish Border....
joins the River Teviot
River Teviot
The River Teviot, or Teviot Water, is a river of the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and a tributary of the River Tweed.It rises in the western foothills of Comb Hill on the border of Dumfries and Galloway...
, near to Eckford
Eckford, Scottish Borders
Eckford is a village on the A698 and the B6401, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, close to the place where the Kale Water joins the River Teviot...
, Cessford
Cessford
Cessford is a village off the B6401, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.The placename is from Gaelic 'ceis' and means 'the wattled causeway over the ford'; spellings vary between Cesfuird, Cesford, Cessfoord, Cessfuird, and Cessfurde....
, Crailing
Crailing
Crailing is a village on the A698, in Teviotdale, 4m east of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire.Places nearby include Ancrum, Crailinghall, Eckford, Hownam, Kelso, Nisbet, Roxburghshire, the Oxnam Water, the River Teviot.Rory Bremner bought Crailing House...
, Kelso, and Roxburgh
Roxburgh (village)
Roxburgh is a village off the A699, by the River Teviot, near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.Other places nearby include Ednam, Heiton, Maxton, Morebattle, Smailholm, Sprouston and Stichill,The Borders Abbeys Way passes through the village....
.
Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
The Kalemouth Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge at Kalemouth in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, near the B6401. It crosses the River Teviot just above its confluence with the Kale Water, near Eckford...
is a suspension bridge
Suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century...
.
Sources
- The Structural Assessment and Strengthening of Kalemouth Bridge, Scotland, P. Jackson, Routledge